DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a fourth term in office.
The government says the election shows Syria is functioning normally, despite the decade-old war. But the opposition and Western nations view the exercise as a farce to rubber-stamp Assad’s grip on power.
(Reporting By Kinda Makieh; Writing By Maha El Dahan; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
